The December 19th meeting of the Westwoods Trails Committee will be held in person at the Guilford Community Center (32 Church St) in the Faulkner Room. We will have a Zoom set up so those who want to attend virtually can do so. The WTC meeting is this Monday (12/19) at 7:30pm. The Zoom connection will be hosted by John […]
Continued blaze posting from work parties on the 3rd & 17th. We’ll have all the blazing materials, but recommend you bring a tool belt with places for nails, a hammer and a stockpile of blazes. Depending on who joins us on this day before Christmas, we may grab a chainsaw to address a recently reported tree in the area. If […]
For all who are interested in some bracing work before their New Year celebration, we’ve planned this final work party of the year. We’re not exactly sure of where we’ll be heading, but the plan is to meet at the Dunk Rock Road trailhead, and plan from there. Paul will have a chainsaw and other necessary equipment. But you should […]
Our first ‘walk ’n work party’ of the year, and a great way to begin the New Year both helping WWTC and enjoying a nice walk in the woods. Like all our W n’W outings this trail season, we’ll be posting our new plastic blazes, now continuing on Yellow (Circle and Square) trails. It’s a great opportunity for young kids […]
We received a report in December of an unhealthy tree overhanging the Lower Moose Hill Road parking area, and we’re meeting early to drop and remove this before the lot fills with Saturday hiking/biking traffic. As we’re in the area, we then expect to head over to Landon’s Way, where a couple of large, but very dead Ash trees need […]
The Fenner Field is a small (4 acre) field that was donated to the Land Trust in the early ’90’s. and managed as a hay-field ever since. As often happens with such management, invasive plants (like multiflora rose and autumn olive) establish themselves along the field edges and degrade the quality of the hay from that region of the field. […]
This is another of our ‘Build a Better WW Trails’ series. On this work party, we plan to work on sections of the White/Orange cross trail just north of the relocation work we performed in late November. We’ll be removing a tree and re-routing the trail to make this disused cross trail easier to use, especially in wet weather. And […]
Our second ‘walk ’n work party’ of the year, open to all interested in helping but not so interested in the noise and equipment used on many of our work parties. Like all our W n’W outings this trail season, we’ll be posting our new plastic blazes, now continuing on Yellow (Circle and Square) trails. A group of Pack 475 […]
GLCT director and Property Steward Melissa Robinson is organizing an effort to begin clearing a potpourri of foreign invasive plants from the Mill Pasture property. Located on the corner of Rt. 1 and Long Hill Road, this overlooked property is crossed by three branches of the West River, and infested with oriental bittersweet and honeysuckle, as well as multiflora rose […]
We’ve received a report of a large tree down over a section trail about as distant from our trail head as possible. So we’ll be hiking in to clear this tree, and intend on using this opportunity to check out as many trails as we can in the process. A backup saw would be welcomed, and extra hands to share […]
Continued blaze posting and hopefully the completion of the Yellow Trails. See the 4th of February for details of what to bring along. Please meet us at the Peddlers Road trail entrance @ 10AM. Rain or significant snow will usually cancel any of these work parties, so if you have questions about the schedule, please feel free to contact me […]
Members of Cub Scout Pack 475 (and their parents) will be joining us to continue the installation of our new plastic blazes in the Westwoods Trails network. And while the actual trail we plan to blaze is dependent on progress earlier in the month, we guess we’ll be concentrating on the Blue Rectangle, the primary East/West trail which connects with […]